How to add line break in PDFbox JAVA

Question

im generating a PDF file with some comments, cells, tables... Im working with PDFbox in JAVA

I would like to add a line break to my string which its called "escComments" and it contain an array of Comments.

I've tried "\n", "\r", "System.getProperty(“line.separator”)" and nothing works.

This is my code:

if (action.getCloseComment() != null) {

String escComments = action.getCloseComment();
escComments = escapeChars(escComments);
            
            
row.put( "COMENTARIOS", escComments);
}

I would like to add a line break for each comment comming from getCloseComment()

Answer 1

try (PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page))
{
    PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
    contents.beginText();
    contents.setFont(font, 12);
    contents.newLineAtOffset(100, 700);
    contents.showText(line1);
    contents.newLineAtOffset(0, -50);
    contents.showText(line2);
    contents.newLineAtOffset(0, -50);
    contents.showText(line3);
    contents.endText();
}

Answer 2

you can try 'moveTextPositionByAmount' to split string and move the text position to next line.